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jospeh554today at 3:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

Exactly, and the fact that friendster failed was because nobody was going onto it anymore, so there's nobody going to be hitting ads, other than bots.

The WayBack machine shows the redirect to the ad page offering the domain for sale.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231018214628/https://friendste...

So doesn't seem like it was serving ads anyway